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Title:

Representation matters : (re)articulating collective identities in a postcolonial world / editors, Anette Hoffmann and Esther Peeren.

Publisher:

Rodopi,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

279 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Group identity
Identity (Psychology)
Identity politics.
Representation (Philosophy)

Other Authors:

Hoffmann, Anette
Peeren, Esther

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Representation matters / Anette Hoffmann and Esther Peeren -- 1. Concepts of postcolonial identity : contingent articulations. Alterity and identities : the paradoxes of authenticity / Sudeep Dasgupta ; Insularity and identity at odds in Martinique: 1973 to 2004 / Marc Brudzinski ; The West between culture(s) and collective identity : notes for a present problematic / Nimrod Ben-Cnaan ; Ubuntu, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and South African national identity / Hanneke Stuit ; Resistance or compliance? : the problem of Orientalism in Osman Hamdi's paintings / G©ơlru ©akmak -- 2. Relational histories. Romani identity formation and the globalization of Holocaust discourse / Huub van Baar ; Similarity and difference : the appearance of suffering at the Strokestown Famine Museum / Niamh Ann Kelly -- 3. Rethinking origins and indigeneity. Resignifying genesis, identity, and landscape : routes versus roots / Anette Hoffmann ; From Salsipuedes to Tabar©♭ : race, space, and the Uruguayan subject / Vannina Sztainbok ; Bolivian indigenous identities : reshaping the terms of political debate, 1994-2004 / Claret Vargas -- 4. Reinventing tradition. Performative constructions of female identity at a Hindu ritual : some thoughts on the agentive dimension / Beatrix Hauser ; "We are like fish that were reeled in" : peasant understandings of modernity in Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson ; Silence, absence, loss : Chineseness in post-authoritarian Indonesia / Sonja van Wichelen ; Moving identities : mythology and metaphor in Andr©♭ Brink's Praying mantis / Saskia Lourens.

Series:

Thamyris intersecting: place, sex, and race, 1570-7253 ; no. 20

ISBN:

9789042028456
9042028459

OCLC:

(OCoLC)671693371

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)